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A
gesture
of
assent
was
the
answer
.
The
Huron
was
content
with
the
assurance
,
and
resuming
his
pipe
,
he
awaited
the
proper
moment
to
move
.
The
impatient
Heyward
,
inwardly
execrating
the
cold
customs
of
the
savages
,
which
required
such
sacrifices
to
appearance
,
was
fain
to
assume
an
air
of
indifference
,
equal
to
that
maintained
by
the
chief
,
who
was
,
in
truth
,
a
near
relative
of
the
afflicted
woman
.
The
minutes
lingered
,
and
the
delay
had
seemed
an
hour
to
the
adventurer
in
empiricism
,
when
the
Huron
laid
aside
his
pipe
,
and
drew
his
robe
across
his
breast
,
as
if
about
to
lead
the
way
to
the
lodge
of
the
invalid
.
Just
then
,
a
warrior
of
powerful
frame
darkened
the
door
,
and
stalking
silently
among
the
attentive
group
,
he
seated
himself
on
one
end
of
the
low
pile
of
brush
which
sustained
Duncan
.
The
latter
cast
an
impatient
look
at
his
neighbor
,
and
felt
his
flesh
creep
with
uncontrollable
horror
when
he
found
himself
in
actual
contact
with
Magua
.
The
sudden
return
of
this
artful
and
dreaded
chief
caused
a
delay
in
the
departure
of
the
Huron
.
Several
pipes
,
that
had
been
extinguished
,
were
lighted
again
;
while
the
newcomer
,
without
speaking
a
word
,
drew
his
tomahawk
from
his
girdle
,
and
filling
the
bowl
on
its
head
,
began
to
inhale
the
vapors
of
the
weed
through
the
hollow
handle
,
with
as
much
indifference
as
if
he
had
not
been
absent
two
weary
days
on
a
long
and
toilsome
hunt
.
Ten
minutes
,
which
appeared
so
many
ages
to
Duncan
,
might
have
passed
in
this
manner
;
and
the
warriors
were
fairly
enveloped
in
a
cloud
of
white
smoke
before
any
of
them
spoke
.
"
Welcome
!
"
one
at
length
uttered
;
"
has
my
friend
found
the
moose
?
"
"
The
young
men
stagger
under
their
burdens
,
"
returned
Magua
.
"
Let
'
Reed-that-bends
'
go
on
the
hunting-path
;
he
will
meet
them
.
"
A
deep
and
awful
silence
succeeded
the
utterance
of
the
forbidden
name
.
Each
pipe
dropped
from
the
lips
of
its
owner
as
though
all
had
inhaled
an
impurity
at
the
same
instant
.
The
smoke
wreathed
above
their
heads
in
little
eddies
,
and
curling
in
a
spiral
form
,
it
ascended
swiftly
through
the
opening
in
the
roof
of
the
lodge
,
leaving
the
place
beneath
clear
of
its
fumes
,
and
each
dark
visage
distinctly
visible
.
The
looks
of
most
of
the
warriors
were
riveted
on
the
earth
;
though
a
few
of
the
younger
and
less
gifted
of
the
party
suffered
their
wild
and
glaring
eyeballs
to
roll
in
the
direction
of
a
white-headed
savage
,
who
sat
between
two
of
the
most
venerated
chiefs
of
the
tribe
.
There
was
nothing
in
the
air
or
attire
of
this
Indian
that
would
seem
to
entitle
him
to
such
a
distinction
.
The
former
was
rather
depressed
,
than
remarkable
for
the
bearing
of
the
natives
;
and
the
latter
was
such
as
was
commonly
worn
by
the
ordinary
men
of
the
nation
.
Like
most
around
him
,
for
more
than
a
minute
his
look
too
was
on
the
ground
;
but
,
trusting
his
eyes
at
length
to
steal
a
glance
aside
,
he
perceived
that
he
was
becoming
an
object
of
general
attention
.
Then
he
arose
and
lifted
his
voice
in
the
general
silence
.
"
It
was
a
lie
,
"
he
said
;
"
I
had
no
son
.
He
who
was
called
by
that
name
is
forgotten
;
his
blood
was
pale
;
and
it
came
not
from
the
veins
of
a
Huron
;
the
wicked
Chippewas
cheated
my
squaw
.
The
Great
Spirit
has
said
,
that
the
family
of
Wiss-entush
should
end
;
he
is
happy
who
knows
that
the
evil
of
his
race
dies
with
himself
.
I
have
done
.
"
The
speaker
,
who
was
the
father
of
the
recreant
young
Indian
,
looked
round
and
about
him
,
as
if
seeking
commendation
of
his
stoicism
in
the
eyes
of
his
auditors
.
But
the
stern
customs
of
his
people
had
made
too
severe
an
exaction
of
the
feeble
old
man
.
The
expression
of
his
eye
contradicted
his
figurative
and
boastful
language
,
while
every
muscle
in
his
wrinkled
visage
was
working
with
anguish
.
Standing
a
single
minute
to
enjoy
his
bitter
triumph
,
he
turned
away
,
as
if
sickening
at
the
gaze
of
men
,
and
veiling
his
face
in
his
blanket
,
he
walked
from
the
lodge
with
the
noiseless
step
of
an
Indian
,
seeking
,
in
the
privacy
of
his
own
abode
,
the
sympathy
of
one
like
himself
,
aged
,
forlorn
,
and
childless
.
The
Indians
,
who
believe
in
the
hereditary
transmission
of
virtues
and
defects
in
character
,
suffered
him
to
depart
in
silence
.
Then
,
with
an
elevation
of
breeding
that
many
in
a
more
cultivated
state
of
society
might
profitably
emulate
,
one
of
the
chiefs
drew
the
attention
of
the
young
men
from
the
weakness
they
had
just
witnessed
,
by
saying
,
in
a
cheerful
voice
,
addressing
himself
in
courtesy
to
Magua
,
as
the
newest
comer
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